BOOK Anno 1570. Other assertions uttered at other times by the said Cartwright: 1. That he himself being a Reader of Divinity, is a and asser- Doctor exercising the office named Ephes. iv. and therefore must only read, and may not preach. tions. The Queen gives the Archbishop a cup. Comes into Bishopsthorp. 2. No Ministers are to be made, nor no Pastors to be admitted, without election and consent of the people. 3. He that hath a cure may not preach, but only to his own flock. With many other such falsities. This was the information and advice of the Archbishop relating to Cartwright, who this year began to shew himself more openly. This first year, in token of the Queen's good affection to him, she gave him a standing cup double gilt; which he bequeathed at his death to Pembroke hall in Cambridge, where he had been Fellow and Master. It was not before July 13th, this year, that Dr. Edwin Sandys, Bishop of Worcester, his fellow exile and countryman, succeeded him in the see of London, and the full enjoyment of the temporalties: and July 20 he was installed by proxy. His first going down to York was not before the month of August; the 17th day whereof he came to Cawood, a seat of the Archbishops of York, where he was delivered from his late distemper: but he feared the air of that place, being very moist and gross, as he wrote in a letter to the Secretary. Nor did he much like Bishopsthorp, the other house nearer York, which was reported to him to be an extreme cold house for winter. Yet because he would be near York, to deal in matters of commission, he purposed to remove thither at Michaelmas. He was not received with such concourse of gentlemen at his first coming into the shire, as he hoped for. Sir Thomas Gargrave, with his son, Mr. Bunnie, Mr. Watterton, one of the Savyls, and four or five gentlemen more, met him near to Doncaster, and conducted him unto the said Sir Thomas's house, where he lodged that night; and the next day met him at his church Mr. Ask, Mr. Hungate, and four or five more in I. ferior gentlemen, and brought him to Cawood. But several CHAP. came to him soon after, excusing themselves either by their own sickness, or of some of their families; as Sir William Anno 1570. Babthorp, Mr. Slingesby, Mr. Goodrick, Mr. Beckwith, and some others: for indeed agues were at that time very universal throughout all that country. Sir Henry Gates was then with the Lord Lieutenant in the north, but came to the Archbishop upon his return. fice. In what condition he found the people of these parts at The state of the people his first coming among them, take his own account in his at his first own words, in his letter wrote to the Secretary, August 29, coming. "I cannot as yet write of the state of this country, as of Paper Of"mine own knowledge; but I am informed that the great-164 "est part of our gentlemen are not well affected to godly "religion, and that among the people there are many re"manents of the old. 66 66 They keep holydays and fasts abrogated: they offer money, eggs, &c. at the burial of their dead: they pray "beads, &c. so as this seems to be as it were another "Church, rather than a member of the rest. And for the "little experience I have of this people, methinks I see in "them three evil qualities; which are, great ignorance, Three evil "much dulness to conceive better instruction, and great qualities of "stiffness to retain their wonted errors. I will labour as "much as I can to cure every of these, committing the success to God. I forbear to write unto her Majesty of "these matters, till I may write upon better knowledge. "In the mean time I shall not cease in my daily prayers to "commend her Majesty to Almighty God. God keep you. "From Cawood this 29th August, 1570. "Yours in Christ, "Edm. Ebor." By postscript he took occasion to mention some others of the gentry that came to him that day to dinner, namely, Mr. Layton, Mr. Thomas Gowre, Mr. Place, with one Mr. Davel, who dwelt far off, and came only to welcome him : concerning which last he wished there were many such. BOOK General. The new Archbishop's Vicar General was John Rokeby, II. (who had been a Prebendary of York under King Edward,) Anno 1570. whom he constituted in that office, January 1, in this first His Vicar- year of his translation: and Rodulph Tunstal was his doHis Chap- mestic Chaplain; on whom he collated the prebend of Bychel in this church, March 15, 1571, and made him master of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalene in Ripon, September 24, 1572. lain. Confirms Barnes Bi shop of Carlisle. Visits. His commissions to the Archdeacons, with his injunctions. E Collectam. Rev. Patr. W.Ep. Carliol. et Hutton, D. D. e Registr. Grind. Ebor. fol. 124. a. 165 In this his first year, Aug. the 7th, he confirmed Richard Barnes, S. T. P. Bishop of Carlisle, of his province, in the room of John Best, late Bishop, deceased. The said Barnes had been Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham, consecrated by Young, the preceding Archbishop, March 9, 1566, in the church of St. Peter's, in York; John, Bishop of Carlisle, and William, Bishop of Chester, assisting. Our Archbishop began his visitation this present year 1570, giving forth his commission, which bore date the 26th of December, at Bishopsthorp; issuing out commission then to the four Archdeacons of the diocese, and to the Bishop of Man, " for the pulling down and demolishing those sus" tentacula, commonly called roodlofts, placed at the door "of the choir of every parish church, as footsteps and mo"numents of the old idolatry and superstition." [For it seems those roodlofts (at least in many churches) were still remaining in these northern parts.] "And this in pursu 66 ance of the Queen's injunctions, and an order of her Com"missioners for ecclesiastical causes to that purpose." To each of which commissions a schedule of three articles were annexed, (together with a printed copy of the foresaid orders,) which was as followeth : "These articles following, we Edmonde, by the permis❝sion of God, Archbishop of York, Primate of England, "and Metropolitan, do command and enjoin to be put in "execution within the archdeaconry of York, by the Arch"deacon of the same, or his Official, with speed and effect. "I. Imprimis, That the fourme and order appointed in "the printed schedule hereunto annexed, for taking down "roodlofts, be duly and precisely observed within the said I. "archdeaconry, as well within places exempt as not ex- CHAP. empt. "II. Item, That every Parson, Vicar, Curate, and other Anno 1570. "Mynister within the said archdeaconry, as well in places exempt as not exempt, when he readeth morning or even❝ing prayer, or any part thereof, shall stand in a pulpit to "be erected for that purpose, and turn his face to the "people, that he may be the better heard, and the people "the better edifyed; provided always, that when the "churches are very small, it shall suffyce that the Mynister "stand in his accustomed stall in the queere, so that a con"venient desk or lecterne, with a rowme to turn his face "toward the people, be there provyded, at the charges of "the parish. The judgment and order whereof, and also "the fourme and order of the pulpit, as before, in greater "churches, we do refer unto the same Archdeacon, or his "Official. Provyded also, that all the prayers and other "service appointed for the mynistration of the holy Com"munion, be said and done at the communion table only. "III. Item, That every Mynister saying any publick prayers, or ministring the sacraments, or other rites of "the Church, shall wear a comely surplesse with sleeves; “and that the parish provyde a decent table, standing in a "frame, for the communion table: and that no linnen "clothes, called altar-clothes, and before used about masses, "be laid upon the communion table; but that new be pro"vyded, where provision hath not so been made afore." 66 CHAP. II. Anno 1571. A metropolitical visitation. A book of canons sent him from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Fears of a premunire. His injunctions to the province, Clergy and Laity, and to the Church of York. Whittingham, Dean of Durham, cited before the Archbishop. Bullinger answers the Pope's bull against the Queen. Contest about a prebend in York. Broxborn parsonage. The Archbishop's demesnes at Battersea. A Bishop of Man consecrated. Visits his province. THE Archbishop the next year instituted a metropolitical visitation, beginning the 15th of May 1571, whereof there 166 seemed, in these parts especially, to be great need. Of this we shall hear more by and by. book of ca The ArchAbout August this year, the Archbishop of Canterbury bishop of had some business with his brother, our Archbishop; for Canterbury sends him a being old friends and fellow commissioners in ecclesiastical nons of dis- matters, this distance brake not off their friendship. Now cipline. he sent to him a book of articles and discipline, seasonable for his intended visitation; the same, I make no doubt, with that entitled, Liber quorundam Canonum Disciplinæ Ecclesiæ Anglicana, which is still extant in Sparrow's Collection. It was drawn up in a late synod by the Archbishop of Canterbury and some other Bishops; to which all the Bishops of the province subscribed, either by themselves or proxies; but wanted the Queen's confirmation to authorize the observation of it: though she were privy to it, and did not dislike it, yet that did not seem sufficient to secure against a premunire those Bishops or others that should go about to enjoin it. And these were the fears of Archbishop Grindal, to whom his brother the other Archbishop sent it, with that intent to bring it in practice in his Discourse province, as it was made for that other. As for the book them about itself, he declared he liked it very well; and yet hereafter, if he doubted in any point, or wished it enlarged in any respect, he would signify it to his Grace [of Canterbury] afterwards. But he made hesitation, saying, "that he between it. |